Fatih Kucur completed his undergraduate studies in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Atatürk University, Erzurum. Between 2003 and 2008, he lived in Germany, where he studied psychology for a period at Bielefeld University. In 2015, he earned his PhD in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations from the Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University. He is currently continuing his academic career as a faculty member in the Department of Social Work at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa.